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Dan Shyti – “It’s all about we”

February 12th

Dan Shyti said that leadership is not about «I» but «it’s about promoting we». There is negative and positive leadership. Negative leaders see the dark side and lead by fear and threats. Positive leaders set an example of honesty and the best qualities. They tie self interest to the group interest and make sure the team gets the trophy. They enjoy the trip, not just the objective, and put service above self. Dan is the founder of a company that provides leadership training for corporate and government clients, and has a book titled 4 Power Leadership: Your Pathway to Leadership Success.

The Cyprus Friendship Program

February 5th

Geoffrey and Tom McCarthy from the Olney Rotary Club talked about a joint Rotary and Cyprus Friendship Program.sponsored by the Olney Club. The Friendship Program was first successful in Northern Ireland as a peace-building model. In 1974 Cyprus had a civil war between Greek speaking Christians in the South West and the North Eastern Turkish speaking Moslem’s which was settled by the UN imposing a boundary line across the middle of Cyprus requiring some Greek families to move South and Turks to move North causing much bitterness. In July 2013 Maryland families hosted, for a month, seven pairs of Cypriot teens, each pair comprising one Greek speaking and one Turkish speaking teen, for training in conflict resolution, leadership and peace building.

Classification Talk – Jorge Urrutia

January 29th

Jorge was born into an upper class Guatemalan family of MDs and one engineer. At age 18, he arrived in the US on a student visa with $40. He got a job in an Italian restaurant which provided room and board. He graduated from Montgomery College, UMD, and Harvard with an advanced degrees in engineering and Public Administration. He worked in engineerig for the Navy and DOD in Madrid, Europe, and Diego Garcia ( a British island in the Indian Ocean ). Jorge then worked for the National Institute of Standards & Technology. He retired from the US Government and is the owner and CEO of Management Services Inc Universal in Gaithersburg.